Principal Web Engineer

Based in the heart of Leamington Spa, Pixel Toys have spent over a decade pushing the capabilities of mobile and VR gaming. We have developed multiple award-winning titles, including: Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realm War; and we’re now excited to be exclusively working on a new game, unlike ANYTHING we’ve done previously!

As a forward thinking and innovative studio we are always looking for new technologies and techniques to develop and use in our games and make them even more engaging experiences for our customers.

We are excited to continue to grow our team and are always on the lookout for highly talented and motivated individuals, who are passionate about gaming and excited to join us on our ambitious journey!

The Role:

Join Pixel Toys as a Principal/Senior Web Engineer on a 6month contract and steer our technical direction while setting the gold standard for our web engineering discipline.

You will move beyond day-to-day coding in order to architect the safety, scalability, and longevity of our entire ecosystem, ensuring every system is resilient enough to thrive long-term. By planning and executing a sophisticated cloud infrastructure strategy using Infrastructure as Code frameworks (such as Pulumi and SST), you will provide the rock-solid foundation upon which our digital experiences are built.

Your influence will be felt across the entire business as you help set the technical roadmap, leveraging your expertise to tackle complex problems before they ever impact the user experience. You will ensure the seamless rollout of new products through rigorous monitoring with tools like Datadog and BugSnag, defining the metrics that prove our success. As a guardian of system integrity, you will proactively mitigate risks and improve code quality, ensuring that every change we make strengthens our connected systems rather than compromising them.

Beyond the architecture, you will be a champion for the talented professionals behind the code, actively mentoring junior engineers and supporting senior team members in their professional growth. You will know exactly which levers to pull in order to drive operational efficiency and will be invaluable when it comes to translating business goals into world-class engineering realities.

By setting a high bar for behaviors and technical execution, you will lead by example, fostering a culture of excellence that empowers the wider team to deliver their best work.

About you:

Joining us as a seasoned technical visionary with a deep professional understanding of web development, you will be able to demonstrate a history of architecting and delivering complex, scalable systems. Your expertise spans the entire stack, allowing you to move fluently between high-performance frontend frameworks like React and Astro in SSR mode and robust backend environments powered by AWS Elasticache, DynamoDB, and OAuth integrations.

You will bring a sophisticated understanding of architectural patterns, utilising Dependency Injection and IoC containers such as Inversify to build modular, maintainable code, while leveraging Sanity CMS to empower content delivery. Infrastructure is a core part of your toolkit, and you are as comfortable managing AWS environments via Pulumi or SST, as you are implementing rigorous observability standards through BugSnag and Datadog. 

You also possess a strong background in integration testing frameworks, ensuring that every deployment is as stable as it is innovative. As an expert in Agile development, you don't just follow a roadmap, but help to define it, using your experience to balance immediate feature delivery with long-term system health and technical excellence.

Beyond your technical mastery, you are an exceptional communicator with a keen eye for the fine details that separate good code from world-class engineering. As a self-starter who thrives on independence, you are more than capable of juggling multiple high-impact projects simultaneously without ever losing sight of quality.

On top of all of this, your passion for the craft is matched by your commitment to professional growth, making you a natural mentor and a stabilising force for the wider engineering team.

What can Pixel Toys offer:

At Pixel Toys we are proud of the progressive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment we have created; a place where everyone has the opportunity to be themselves and is welcomed and valued for who they are and what they contribute. We have some fantastic benefits we offer our employees… Here are just some of them:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually


• 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays


• Discretionary Bonus Scheme


• Up to 3 additional long service days (duvet days!)


• Private Medical Insurance (including optical and dental)


• Company Pension scheme


• Death in Service benefit


• Regular socials including epic summer and Christmas parties!


• Staff training and development


• Quarterly Wellness days (On-site massages and more)


• Flexi-time working hours

Recruitment selection is based on skills, experience and a good Pixel Toys mission and values fit.